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Military Instruction in Land-Grant Colleges. 
E. B. Andrews. Agreeably to the notice which I took the liberty of giving, I offer 
the following resolution with reference to military instruction in land-grant colleges: 
Resolved, That the committee on military instruction is directed to try and secure 
some modification of War Department General Orders No. 94, relating to military 
instruction in the land-grant colleges, abolishing the fixed live-hour per week 
requirement for military instruction, and allowing such colleges larger liberty in 
arranging their programme of weekly exercises. 
Resolved, That the committee is further directed to submit to the association at its 
next convention a draft of recommendation to be, if approved, urged upon Congress 
Looking to more complete provision for the military instruction required of the land- 
grant colleges. 
C. E. Coates, Jr., of Louisiana. I thoroughly approve the resolution just read, but I 
should like to offer a brief amendment to it. It so happens that the State which I 
represent has a very strong military spirit indeed, and it has been found perfectly 
practicable there to carry out a system of military instruction and discipline very 
closely analagous to that at West Point. Nevertheless, it has been found impossible 
to comply with the order of the War Department in reference to this matter. We 
have been giving a great deal of attention to the formulating of a course in military 
instruction and discipline, a course which in general would comply with the spirit 
of the law 7 . But we have found considerable difference of opinion on this subject 
among various institutions throughout the country. In the course of an investiga- 
tion into this subject I found — not very greatly to my surprise, for I already knew 
the facts to some extent — that there is great variation among the land-grant colleges 
in the methods of procedure and the time allotted to this matter of military 
instruction. 
Now, as the bond of obligation in this matter lies equally strong on every land- 
grant college, I think it would be well for this committee to report at the next meet- 
ing of the association some recommendation in plain figures as to what would meet 
the obligations of these schools along these lines. I therefore move that this com- 
mittee, in addition to their present duties, be asked to formulate some definite line 
of military instruction to which in their judgment it is advisable for all the colleges 
to attempt to approximate. It is not perhaps advisable that such a scheme should 
be binding on any particular college that might wish to give more or less than the 
prescribed time to this study; but I suggest that the committee formulate some defi- 
nite general scheme of military instruction to which in their judgment it is advisable 
for most of our colleges to approximate to. 
J. L. Snyder, of Michigan. lam in sympathy with the views expressed by the 
gentleman who has just taken his seat; but I do not believe it would be best to adopt 
his amendment as a rider to this resolution. I second the resolution of President 
Andrews, and shall be glad later to second the proposition of the gentleman from 
Louisiana. 
The resolution of President Andrews was, with the approval of the executive com- 
mittee, adopted. 
A resolution by C. E. Coates, jr., of Louisiana, favorably reported by the executive 
committee, was subsequently read and adopted, as follows: 
Resolved, Thai this association recognizes fully the value of the results aimed at by 
General Orders No. 94, of the War Department; and in order to reach those results 
most effectually, 
That the committee on military affairs be requested to collect statistics on what is 
now being done in military training in land-grant colleges, including time devoted to 
drill, detailed duty, etc.; 
That the committee secure expressions of opinion on the effect of such training 
upon academic work; 
That it formulate a scheme of military instruction to be recommended for general 
